Our May 25, 2023 Modern & Post-War Art auction features a wide array: from the Post-Impressionist era, a work on paper by Gwen John, up to the works of abstract artist James…
Among the highlights are a large oil by African American abstract painter, Norman Lewis, dated 1966, and an oil from the same year by the author of the New York Times’…
In times of economic hardship, the United States government has stepped in to create jobs for the unemployed through federal programs. In such cases focusing on our country’s…
Swann Galleries will open the 2023 winter season on February 16 with the Artists of the WPA. The sale marks the house’s third annual presentation of this category. In…
Related Reading Alma Thomas & the Washington Scene A special section is devoted to the artwork of Alma Thomas and her Washington, DC contemporaries. The centerpiece…
This season’s Modern & Post-War Art auction is set to present a broad scope of artistic movements, featuring Selections From the Gary Snyder Collection. The collection…
Harold Porcher, Director of Modern & Post-War Art and lead specialist for the Artists of the WPA sale on January 27, 2022, shares three standout paintings from the auction.…
The end of the nineteenth century brought the Machine Age. Many wonderful innovations such as electrification, the assembly line, skyscrapers, and radio broadcast made…
When Paul Cezanne left Paris and the Impressionist movement to explore his independent concepts of capturing time and space on the two-dimensional picture plane through light,…
